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In praise of new travelers : reading Caribbean migrant women writers / Isabel Hoving.
LIBRA PR9205.4 .H68 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoving, Isabel.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean fiction (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Caribbean fiction (English).
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Immigrants' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Immigrants' writings, English.
- Women and literature--Caribbean Area--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- History.
- Women authors.
- Caribbean Area--In literature.
- Caribbean Area.
- Women in literature.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- " This is a welcome addition to the field of black feminist writing. Hoving' s focus on African and Caribbean women writing in exile deals with some familiar authors, but her theoretical approach and treatment are original and solid, and her clear readings can serve as a model for other critics in the field." - Kathleen Balutansky, St. Michael' s College "Hoving offers rigorous, logical analyses of works by several major modern Caribbean authors. . . . Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty."- Choice
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Place, Voice, and Silence 1
- 2 Tropes of Women's Exile: Violent Journeys and the Body's Geography 29
- 3 Homemaking, Woman-Talk, Time-Waste: Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House 77
- 4 Writing for Listeners: Merle Colins's Angel 122
- 5 The Pleasures of Address: Grace Nichols's Whole of a Morning Sky 156
- 6 Jamaica Kincaid Is Getting Angry 184
- 7 A Dog with a Foaming Mouth: Michelle Cliff and the Dangers of the Interior 238
- 8 The Castration of Livingstone: Marlene Nourbese Philip's Successful Seduction of the Father of Silence 270
- 9 Conclusion: On the Hybridity of Cross-Cultural Dialogue 316.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804729476
- 0804729484
- OCLC:
- 45100169
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